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The Vanier Report: Week 26

Cyborg #1
Written by: David F. Walker
Pencils by: Ivan Reis
Inks by: Joe Prado
Colours by: Adriano Lucas
Letters by: Rob Leigh

It’s hard to believe that a character as popular as Cyborg, who has been a member of two major superhero teams (the Teen Titans and now the Justice League) for the better part of 30 years, is only now getting his first-ever ongoing solo series. He has been featured before in a six-issue limited series, but otherwise, this week’s Cyborg #1 is a first for the character.

Written by David F. Walker and drawn by Ivan Reis, the debut issue of the new series finds Victor Stone returning to S.T.A.R. Labs in Detroit where he seeks the help of his father in understanding the latest unexplained changes in his technology. As Vic replays footage from a recent battle, it is revealed that he…

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The Vanier Report: Week 18

Convergence: Wonder Woman #2
Written by: Larry Hama
Pencils by: Aaron Lopresti
Inks by: Matt Banning
Colours by: Tanya & Richard Horie
Letters by: Tom Napolitano

“Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”

The famous words of the Duke of Wellington echo loudly through Larry Hama’s concluding chapter of Convergence: Wonder Woman, even going so far as to paraphrase the quote at the story’s conclusion.

As Wonder Woman and the vampire Joker square off, Steve Trevor has to fight off a horde of newly turned vampires, as well as Red Rain’s Poison Ivy and Catwoman. The fights are gruesome and bloody, with Steve unloading magazine after magazine into the heads and bodies of his undead attackers while Wonder Woman is forced to unleash her most violent and aggressive self – breaking and smashing the bones and bodies of the vampires beyond their…

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